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Historical Event on 1/12/1992

Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous Classical singer, passed away at the age of 67.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/28/1956Tirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, great Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact), was born in Madras.
7/3/1936Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling during Cambridge U vs MCC match.
10/1/1992Broadcasting of Zee TV started.
4/9/1997Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy in Gwalior.
12/24/1998A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists.
10/14/1953Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Family Planning and Sex Education preacher, died.
1/18/1932Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur.
6/13/1992Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away.
1/18/1936Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story).
1/2/1948Nehru threatens Indian action to stop Pakistani raids into Kashmir.